This gives me a pained nostalgia for a world where people liked to “hang out” at the mall when bored.
"This is how we live now."
Malls made town centers decay, sometimes even disappear. Towns definitely lost their uniqueness as pretty much every mall is the same.
I love the internet and how it allows anyone to do almost anything without leaving home... but at the same time, I hope that spaces where people go to physically interact do not ever disappear (at least while we're confined to a physical, biological body, that is).